Annotated 9-1
This page used to be very different. The sequence was Phil’s, but I took a stab at it because Phil was taking a while, which kind of spurred Phil to do it right. :-)
In my initial version, Best’s reintroduction would have been one caption: “I wasn’t born to this life. I wasn’t trained. I was chosen.” As it is, this is the third and last of our (early) chapters that begins with a character writing the story out for us. Best will mention later that he’s composing a musical autobiography, and these musings feel like they’re half for the benefit of that work’s future audience and half heartfelt in the moment.
The first of these vignettes summarizes his print-only adventure. The other three are not shown anywhere else, and we never mention sirens or basilisks again. At one point in the series’ development, when we were thinking sixty chapters instead of fifty, we thought our heroes might have spent more time wandering after they became fugitives, on some kind of journey that probably would have included time at sea. Under those circumstances, we might’ve brought sirens back.
“Simply the Best” would also be a good option
I’m perfectly fine reading about this actually. :)
I remember the collective groan from a lot of the comment section when people realized Best was making a comeback. Good times.
One might say that it was the worst of times, it was the Best of times….
It seems like it was the Best they all could do, and did.
The last panel is statistically improbable.
Now, now. It’s merely improbable, not impossible.
If you can calculate an approximation of this improbability, then you can generate it. All you need is a teacup (for Brownian motions), a piece of biscuit…
Just watch the sky. Pots of begonia and whales have been known to spontaneous appear and fall off, occasionally, when people abuse a generator of infinite improbability.
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A more cynical me would just have answered that manipulators and narcissists are very good at making this sort of improbable thing happen.
Is that a motherfucking
JojoHitchhiker’s reference?Yep!
I was speaking not of the number of participants but of the fact that not a single naughty bit is exposed. Even Best isn’t that good. Clearly this is divine intervention on the part of a powerful Expurgatory God.
I do enjoy the way that the women look more-or-less blissed out, and the men look more-or-less miserable.